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>'Evolution and Medicine' Workshop
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>3rd November, 2004
>Huxley Conference Theatre
>Institute of Zoology, London
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>ALL WELCOME - FREE ENTRY
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>Co-organisers:
>Centre for Ecology and Evolution, UCL
>Hygiene Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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>For more info. see:
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>http://www.ucl.ac.uk/%7Eucbtcee/cee/events.html
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>Evolutionary thinking has underwritten the biological sciences since
>Darwin's time. More recently it has also had an impact on a range of
>other disciplines, including medicine. The field of 'evolutionary
>medicine', which is concerned with the hunt for evolutionary
>explanations of vulnerability to disease, is now supported by a
>burgeoning literature. However, a more general relationship between the
>medical and evolutionary sciences exits in which the outcomes of
>evolutionary thinking can have a direct bearing on health. This
>workshop will examine some key aspects of this broader relationship,
>including evidence for natural selection on pathogens and genes that
>influence health, the evolution of aging and cancer, foetal programming
>of genetic susceptibilities and reproductive potential, and the
>evolution of motive and emotion.
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>PROGRAMME
>9.00 Welcome and Introduction.
> Session 1: Chair - Prof. Linda Partridge
>9:15 Dr. Michael Stumpf (Imperial College London)
> Of cannibals and couch-potatoes: evolutionary genetics of
>kuru and diabetes
>9:50 Prof. Dallas Swallow (University College London)
> The intestinal epithelium: protection and digestion,
>diversity and selection
>10:25 Dr. David Conway (London School of Hygiene and Tropical
>Medicine)
> Natural selection on human pathogens
>11:00 Tea
> Session 2: Chair - Prof. Lewis Wolpert
>11:30 Dr. Amanda Drake (University of Edinburgh)
> The intergenerational consequences of foetal programming
>12:05 Dr. Gillian Bentley (University College London)
> Developmental plasticity and reproductive hormone levels:
>Implications for health
>12:40 Lunch
> Session 3: Chair - Prof. Dallas Swallow
>14:00 Prof. David Goldstein (University College London)
> Population and evolutionary approaches in medical genetics
>14:40 Prof. Linda Partridge (University College London)
> Evolution and ageing
>15:15 Prof. Mel Greaves (Institute of Cancer Research, London)
> An evolutionary eye on cancer
>15:55 Tea
> Session 4: Chair - Prof. Steve Jones
>16:10 Dr. Daniel Nettle (University of Newcastle)
> An evolutionary perspective on emotion and emotional disorders
>16:50 Dr. Valerie Curtis (London School of Hygiene and Tropical
>Medicine)
> Disgust and disease: harnessing emotion to healthy behaviour
>17:25 Short presentation by Dr John Galloway (Eastman Dental
Hospital)
> Towards teaching evolutionary medicine
>17.30 General Discussion - Discussants - Profs. Steve Jones and Lewis
>Wolpert
>17:50 Drinks reception
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>Dr Mark Thomas
>Department of Biology
>University College London
>Gower Street
>London WC1E 6BT
>Tel: (020) 7 679 2654
>Fax: (020) 7 679 7096
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